Geochemistry Research Option

Current Projects in Mineralogy

1. Hydrous Components in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals
2. Analytical Calibration of the Spectrum of OH in Minerals
3. Spectroscopy of Minerals
   The RRUFF project
4. New minerals in meteorites and terresterial materials
5. Spectroscopy of manganese in minerals

Previous Projects in Mineralogy

1. Silica products of basaltic weathering
2. OH in crustal minerals - feldspars and pyroxenes
3. Nano-phases in rose quartz
4. The origin of green color in quartz from amethyst deposits
5. Martian Surface Mineralogy
6. Instrumentation development - tunable laser spectrometer
7. Undergraduate Research: nano-inclusions in minerals
8. Undergraduate Research: Temperature dependence of OH in minerals
9. Undergraduate Research: OH in tourmaline
10. Undergraduate Research: thermochromic garnets
11. Undergraduate Research: Studies of the rare mineral painite
12. Undergraduate Research: OH in spodumene

Most-recent postdocs

Former graduate students

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Publication list including data files and figures from recent publications

Mineral Spectroscopy Server